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The Effectiveness of Notice and Notice

The CBC runs a story today on the growing use of "notice and notice" by copyright holders.  Telus apparently sends out about a thousand notices each week, while the Business Software Alliance says it sent out 60,000 notifications to Canadians last year. These numbers are consistent with my own experience […]

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February 15, 2007 20 comments News

Viacom Notices

Viacom demands that YouTube take down 100,000 clips that it claims constitute copyright infringement and YouTube responds that it will comply with the request.  While some are asking how YouTube can remove so many clips so quickly, a better question is how Viacom can identify that many clips with sufficient […]

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February 2, 2007 3 comments News

YouTube and Viacom Deal?

Mathew Ingram blogs on a possible YouTube and Viacom deal and why pulling the Daily Show clips may have been a negotiation strategy.

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November 1, 2006 Comments are Disabled News